Finally sorted it (I hope) Turns out I needed to install winbind and then tweak /etc/nsswitch.conf and change the hosts: line to read hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 wins which I found here: http://rasspberrypi.wordpress.com/2012/09/08/connect-to-rasspberry-pi-using-hostname/ ...

Thanks for the swift replies however I have Samba installed and can successfully access the Pi from my Windows machine :D however my problem is the opposite way round I'm trying to access a windows machine from the Pi using the Windows machine name (Windows7 in this case) which acquires its IP addre...

I have finally got my Pi up and running with 2013-02-09-wheezy-raspbian and have set it up with a static IP address and it all seems to work (I can even access the internet). However I am unable to resolve the names for machines on my network! I can ping etc by IP address but not be name. So ping 19...